Letters on Several Subjects, المجلد 2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 |
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الصفحة 16
... charming . The London Theatres will not en- chant you , unless you ftay long enough to know our language better than Vol- taire did . If you come to understand it it well enough to acquire once a relifh for Shakspeare [ 16 ]
... charming . The London Theatres will not en- chant you , unless you ftay long enough to know our language better than Vol- taire did . If you come to understand it it well enough to acquire once a relifh for Shakspeare [ 16 ]
الصفحة 17
Martin Sherlock. it well enough to acquire once a relifh for Shakspeare , you will think no more of Racine after , than you will of St. Paul's church after feeing St. Peter's at Rome . It will be eating a peach after a pine - apple . But ...
Martin Sherlock. it well enough to acquire once a relifh for Shakspeare , you will think no more of Racine after , than you will of St. Paul's church after feeing St. Peter's at Rome . It will be eating a peach after a pine - apple . But ...
الصفحة 29
... once a favourable impreffion is made upon them , their hearts are totally engroffed by it it is the perpetual food of their fouls . Their fentiments then are as pro- found as they are foft ; and hence appear the importance and propriety ...
... once a favourable impreffion is made upon them , their hearts are totally engroffed by it it is the perpetual food of their fouls . Their fentiments then are as pro- found as they are foft ; and hence appear the importance and propriety ...
الصفحة 110
... once with an idea of Greek genius , and of perfect beauty . The author of this ftatue faid to him- felf , I have a Goddess to create ; and " that Goddess is the Goddefs of Love . " She must be a perfect Beauty . But " no fuch being has ...
... once with an idea of Greek genius , and of perfect beauty . The author of this ftatue faid to him- felf , I have a Goddess to create ; and " that Goddess is the Goddefs of Love . " She must be a perfect Beauty . But " no fuch being has ...
الصفحة 112
... once determined , expreffion # given to the ftatue , all the parts dif- pofed of with decency and propriety ; and , to render his production perfect , the whole conveying a refined and ele- gant moral , that Love can only be infpired by ...
... once determined , expreffion # given to the ftatue , all the parts dif- pofed of with decency and propriety ; and , to render his production perfect , the whole conveying a refined and ele- gant moral , that Love can only be infpired by ...
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الصفحة 84 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
الصفحة 190 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
الصفحة 42 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
الصفحة 148 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
الصفحة 40 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
الصفحة 147 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
الصفحة 51 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
الصفحة 197 - Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
الصفحة 194 - ... them in ; or to place them in an attitude, in which they have not been already placed. But talking of a nation, if one did not say something about so considerable a part of it, the subject must appear mutilated and imperfect. As brevity is the soul of wit...
الصفحة 176 - I'll do them juftice. Let every man who knows that nation fpeak of it as he found it; if he lived in their intimacy for years (as I did), and if he found them ill-natured, ill-mannered, treacherous, and cowardly, let him fpeak his mind. I quarrel with no man who judges for himfelf, and who fpsaks the truth.